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Email addresses from yahoo and hotmail are no longer allowed for new members. Users who currently have a yahoo or hotmail account on file will be allowed to keep them for now but that will probably change at some point in the future, as I would like for the system to eventually be purged of those addresses.

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i hope not!

i far prefer using my hotmail address, and NEVER use my isp's email...

would it be THAT difficult to allow current users (especially old timers like me ) to keep a hotmail address??

Bad idea, for the reasons Daniel_M gave... it could be useful as a way of stopping multiple personality posters... perhaps relax restrictions and inform by automated email once a user has established himself e.g. say at 200 posts...

yes, this is definitely not a good idea...I think I speak for many in saying that hotmail and yahoo e-mail accounts are our primary accounts and are actually quite effective in reducing SPAM, viruses, etc that are commonplace with the standard ISP accounts...